Using the short form of timezone names (e.g. "EST", "PST", &c.) is a good way to get yourself really, really, _really_ confused. Use the fuller 'Australia/Victoria' or 'United States/Pacific' forms. Or just use UTC/GMT. If your system writes down any records with datestamps in them, you may find horrible things happen to you as you switch on and off daylight savings. Anthony

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:( The problem is that DT is probably trying to do too much with magical timezone recognition. At some point, some bonehead (and I suspect it probably was me) accepted a request to add CDT to the mapping without noticing that it is a good example of an ambiguous timezone name.

Not a solution, but for part of the history, see http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-April/000323.html where Martijn Pieters writes about a change to DT

Hmm - ok then, (because there is no specific defender of 'CDT' - the mapping was copied from some perl library) I propose to just remove it altogether (in which case the right thing should happen for both cases).

Could you do a quick test and verify if things are sane for you if 'CDT' is simply removed from the mapping?

CDT is not ambiguous at least in the US <g>. I think there was just a mistake made in the map. Didn't Dieter report that the two designations for Central European Time are CET & CEST?

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